> How one can make a statement about not seeing something this century is beyond me, but especially when it involves a mere eight times what the current technology offers (i.e. 8GB card to 65GB card). Think about it. The first mass-market hard drives for PC's came out 26 years ago and stored a whopping 5MB (that megabytes, not gigabytes), and they probably cost $1000 or more. We now have 750GB hard drives that you can get for $500. That's a 150,000 increase in capacity and an at least the same degree of cheapening within the last just 25 years. Since the pace of technology tends to accelerate every year, we're likely to see the next 25 years bring not just a 150,000 fold increase, but perhaps 1.5 million increase? So scrap the idea of a 65GB flash card and go for a 12PB (Petabyte or 1000TB) microdrive in a couple of decades. And that's just a third of the way through the century. Probably by century's end even yottabytes (1 billion petabytes) will seem quaint, and perhaps a
lot
And it still won't be enough to reliably run Windows.
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Peter's Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord, #74.
When I create a multimedia presentation of my plan designed so that my
five-year-old advisor can easily understand the details, I will not
label the disk "Project Overlord" and leave it lying on top of my desk.
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